Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir

Personal Stories from Carmen Maria Machado, Samantha Power,
Saeed Jones, and More

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2019

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

By Rajia Hassib | August 19, 2019

On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

On the Love Hotels and Pleasure Quarters of Tokyo

Anna Sherman Maps Sites of Hidden Desires

By Anna Sherman | August 16, 2019

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

For Sarah Broom, Coming-of-Age Means Learning to See

Of a Childhood in New Orleans

By Sarah M. Broom | August 15, 2019

Lyz Lenz: Finding a Creation Myth of One’s Own

Lyz Lenz: Finding a Creation Myth of One’s Own

The Author of Godland Hits the Road in Search of a Little Darkness

By Lyz Lenz | August 14, 2019

Sister Helen Prejean: <br> My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

Sister Helen Prejean:
My Faith Began With a Fear of Leaving Home

Life Before Dead Man Walking

By Helen Prejean | August 14, 2019

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Ibram X. Kendi: How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies

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The Road to Oliver Sacks'

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Gregory Orr on Rebuilding a Life When Nothing Makes Sense

By Gregory Orr | August 12, 2019

The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language

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Susan Harlan on Rekindling an Old Friendship in the City of Lights

By Susan Harlan | August 12, 2019

Loathing, Leaving and Coming to Love Albuquerque

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Sean Gandert on the Meaning of Querencia

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Rick Moody on the Case of the Cursed Charles Manson Autograph

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By Rick Moody | August 8, 2019

Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

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Amanda Lee Koe on the Icon Who Found Her When She Needed It Most

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Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

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and?"">"Why are we in the West so deeply uncomfortable with and?"

By Tope Folarin | August 7, 2019

Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

Lessons From a Decade Reporting on Women During the Iraq War

Hannah Allam on Survival, Heartbreak and Finding Laughter in a War Zone

By Hannah Allam | August 6, 2019

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

The Painter's Wife vs. The Poet's Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

Shawna Lemay on the Indistinct Line Between Background and Foreground

By Shawna Lemay | August 6, 2019

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